Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel was a tower built by the King of Shinar, Nimrod, in 2249 BC. Nimrod reigned as king of Mesopotamia and united humanity under one language (Syriac) and his rule, and he decided to build a city and a tower which could reach to Heaven, as he sought to prove that he was the most powerful being in existence. However, God, as an act of punishment against Nimrod's hubris, decided to confound human speech and scatter them across the world, so he destroyed the tower and broke humanity's common language into 72 smaller languages. This forced humanity to part ways and form different cultures.